✈ SCL → CAI
SANTIAGO → CAIRO: 16H 1M. BUSINESS CLASS OR THERAPY. PICK ONE.
Flight from Santiago to Cairo
From Arturo Merino Benítez (SCL), Chile South America → Cairo International (CAI), Egypt Africa
↔ Flying the other way? Cairo → Santiago
How long is the flight from Santiago to Cairo?
A nonstop flight from Santiago (SCL) to Cairo (CAI) takes about 16 hours 1 minutes, covering a great-circle distance of 7,972 miles (12,830 km). Actual scheduled time varies by airline, routing, and wind — expect ±15 to 30 minutes from this estimate.
Avg flight time
16h 1m
Nonstop, scheduled
Distance
7,972 mi
12,830 km · great-circle
Avg speed
801 km/h
Door-to-door including taxi
Time zones & jet lag
Santiago timezone
UTC-4
America/Santiago
Cairo timezone
UTC+3
Africa/Cairo
Time difference
+7h
7 hours ahead
Jet lag (rough)
~7d
Eastward — worse
CO₂ footprint per passenger
Economy class, single passenger. Source: DEFRA 2024 averages.
This flight emits roughly 3.6× the CO₂ of an equivalent train trip and 0.9× a car driven alone over the same distance.
Flights from Santiago
Nearest destinations
- Santiago → Buenos Aires
- Santiago → São Paulo
- Santiago → Rio de Janeiro
- Santiago → Cancun
- Santiago → Mexico City
- Santiago → Miami
- Santiago → Atlanta
- Santiago → Dallas
- Santiago → Cape Town
- Santiago → New York
Long-haul from Santiago
- Santiago → Beijing
- Santiago → Shanghai
- Santiago → Hong Kong
- Santiago → Taipei
- Santiago → Seoul
- Santiago → Bangkok
- Santiago → Osaka
- Santiago → Manila
- Santiago → Tokyo
- Santiago → Delhi
More flights to Africa
Flights to Cairo
Nearest origins
- Tel Aviv → Cairo
- Athens → Cairo
- Istanbul → Cairo
- Bucharest → Cairo
- Doha → Cairo
- Rome → Cairo
- Budapest → Cairo
- Vienna → Cairo
- Abu Dhabi → Cairo
- Dubai → Cairo
Long-haul to Cairo
- Auckland → Cairo
- Sydney → Cairo
- Melbourne → Cairo
- Mexico City → Cairo
- Los Angeles → Cairo
- San Francisco → Cairo
- Las Vegas → Cairo
- Buenos Aires → Cairo
- Cancun → Cairo
- Dallas → Cairo